Lucile Allorge ( Boiteau; born 25 October 1937) is a Madagascar-born French

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Biography

Lucile Boiteau was born in

Antananarivo Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known ...

, Madagascar, 25 October 1937. Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and Zoological Garden of Tsimbazaza. Allorge holds a doctorate in botanical sciences. Allorge is a member of many learned societies, including the

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where she won the 2011 . In 1968, she joined the

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(CNRS). An honorary attaché at the

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(MNHN), she has carried out numerous missions in French Guiana, Madagascar, the Philippines, Venezuela and Malaysia. Allorge has published more than 100 scientific articles. She has been named Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar. In 2007, she was elected to the

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as a corresponding member of the 4th section. She is a member of the Société des explorateurs français.

Eponymy

Liliaceae The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fai ...

Aloe ''Aloe'' (; also written ''Aloë'') is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering plant, flowering succulent plant, succulent plants.WFO (2022): Aloe L. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-4000001341. Acc ...

lucile-allorgeae'' Rauh *

Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (, from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the crassulas, the stonecrops or the orpine family, are a diverse Family (biology), family of dicotyledon angiosperms primarily characterized by succulent leaves and a form of phot ...

Kalanchoe ''Kalanchoe'' ( ), (also called "kalanchöe" or "kalanchoë"), is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A ''Kalanchoe'' species was one ...

lucile-allorgei'' Rauh & Mangeldorf *

Buthidae The Buthidae are the largest family of scorpions, containing about 100 genera and 1339 species as of 2022. A few very large genera ('' Ananteris'', '' Centruroides'', '' Compsobuthus'', or '' Tityus'') are known, but a high number of species-poor ...

''Tityobuthus lucileae''A new species of ''Tityobuthus'' from Madagascar (Scorpiones, Buthidae) . Wilson R. Lourenço in ''Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali'', Torino, Vol. 14-N. 1, pages 267-73, 14 May 1996.

Awards and honours

* Prix de Coincy, 2011 * Knight of the National Order of Merit of Madagascar

Selected works

* Lucile Allorge, ''Plantes de Madagascar : atlas''. Plaissan : MUSEO (1st ed. 2008), 2017 * Lucile Allorge (collaborator), ''Je sais utiliser mes huiles essentielles''. Paris : Rue de l’échiquier, 2016 * Collective work under the direction of Lucile Allorge and Thomas Haevermans, ''Namoroka : mission à Madagascar.'' Toulouse : Privat; Paris :

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, 2015 * Yves Delange, Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, ''Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes''. Arles :

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, 2013. * Régine Rosenthal, Lucile Allorge, Jean-Noël Burte, Christian Messier, ''Origines : les forêts primaires dans le monde''. Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2012 * Lucile Allorge-Boiteau and Maxime Allorge, ''Faune et flore de Madagascar.'' Paris : Karthala, 2011 * Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, Régine Rosenthal, ''Madagascar : l'Eden fragile : biodiversité.'' Toulouse : Éditions Privat, 2010 * Lucile Allorge, ''Plantes de Madagascar : atlas.'' Paris : Ulmer, 2008 * Lucile Allorge, ''La fabuleuse odyssée des plantes : les botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers''. Paris :

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, 2003 (prix Émile Gallé) * Suzanne Mollet and Lucile Allorge, ''Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza'' Éditions Alzieu, Grenoble, 2000 * Pierre Boiteau, Marthe Boiteau and Lucile Allorge, ''Dictionnaire des noms malgaches des végétaux'' Éditions Alzieu. Grenoble. 1999 * Pierre Boiteau, Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, ''Kalanchoe (Crassulacées) de Madagascar : systématique, écophysiologie et phytochimie.'' Paris : Karthala, 1995 * Pierre Boiteau and Lucile Allorge-Boiteau, ''Plantes médicinales de Madagascar.'' Paris : Karthala, 1993 * Scientific direction of the republication of lillustration des genres'' by

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, 1000 plates, 10 volumes. Paris : Éditions Amarca, 1989. Translation into Spanish by Liber Ediciones, 1995. * Lucile Allorge, ''Monographie des Apocynacées - Tabernaemontanoïdées américaines''.

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

, Paris, (Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sér. B – Botanique (1950-1992); 30). 1985.

Exhibitions

* ''Botanical passions: naturalists travelers at the time of the great discoveries'': exhibition, Ploézal, Domaine départemental de la Roche Jagu, 7 June-9 November 2008. Rennes: Ouest-France, 2008

Filmography

* ''Sur la piste de Wallace'', expedition to the Philippines in January 2000 under the direction of Patrice Franceschi. DVD. * ''Les sortilèges de l’île rouge'' Madagascar, Ankarana, in November 2001, director Alain Tixier, Ushuaïa Nicolas Hulot, DVD. * ''Le labyrinthe secret de Namoroka'', directors Jean-Michel Corillion and Isabelle Coulon

References

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